David Remsen GBIF Secretariat

Universitetsparken 15 Copenhagen Ø 2100 Denmark

004535321472 dremsen@gbif.org GBIF Secretariat David Remsen

Universitetsparken 15 Copenhagen Ø 2100 Denmark

004535321472 dremsen@gbif.org Hershkovitz Phillip Smithsonian Institution

Washington D.C. 20402 USA

Author 1905-05-19 English This catalog was originally designed as a checklist of the cetaceans of South American waters only. It was clear from the start, however, that comparable limitations could not be imposed on the range of the literature to be consulted. It was also evident that a surprisingly small percentage of living species of marine cetaceans arc unknown from South American and Antarctic seas. With nearly all the essential literature at hand, it was decided to include the extraterritorial forms and make the catalog worldwide in scope. Virtually all original published records of the occurrence of cetaceans in the rivers, on the coasts, islands, and continental shelves of South America have been consulted and are cited herein. Bibliographic references to species or specimens recorded from other waters have been restricted to original descriptions of named forms, critical taxonomic revisions marginal locality records, and some of the outstanding or interesting research on the biology of whales. Except for a few important works commercial, statistical, and popular accounts of whales are not cited in this catalog. Submitted in May 1962, revised and brought up to date in December 1964, the paper has had final additions of new taxonomic and distributional data entered in March 1965. Ceteaceans taxonomic catalog whales dolphins porpoise cc0 Global 1966 1966 David Remsen GBIF Secretariat

Universitetsparken 15 Copenhagen Ø 2100 Denmark

004535321472 dremsen@gbif.org Smithsonian Institution Distributor The scientific publications of the United States National Museum include two series Proceedings of the United States National Museum and United States National Museum Bulletin. In these series are published original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of the Museum and setting forth newly acquired facts in the fields of anthropology, biology, geology, history, and technology. Copies of each publication arc distributed to libraries and scientific organizations and to specialists and others interested in the different subjects. The Proceedings begun in 1878 , are intended for the publication, in separate form, of shorter papers. These arc gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with the publicatiDn date of each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volumc. In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875 , appear longer, separate publications consisting of monographs (occasionally in several parts) and volumes in which are collccted works on related subjects. Bulletins are either octavo or quarto in size, depending on the needs of the presentation. Since 1902 papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum have been published in the Bulletin series under the heading Contributions from the United States National Herbarium.This work forms number 246 of the Bulletin series. 2011-02-15T12:44:41+01:00 Hershkovitz, Phillip, 1966, Catalog of Living Whales, Smithsonian Institution